Damon Wayans Jr.

Part Pablo Picasso, part George Patton, animated filmmakers must possess an unusual mix of artistic vision and managerial savvy. Five directors who recently came together for the Envelope Animation Roundtable discussed the unique demands of the medium. In a conversation at the Los Angeles Times, Graham Annable (“The Boxtrolls,” with Anthony Stacchi), Dean DeBlois (“How to Train Your Dragon 2”), Don Hall (“Big Hero 6,” with Chris Williams), Jorge Gutierrez (“The Book of Life”) and Christopher Miller (“The Lego Movie,” with Phil Lord), tackled such topics as the pitch that goes wrong, the virtue of studio negligence and solutions...

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Part Pablo Picasso, part George Patton, animated filmmakers must possess an unusual mix of artistic vision and managerial savvy. Five directors who recently came together for the Envelope Animation Roundtable discussed the unique demands of the medium. In...

No, Lisa Bonet did not take a veiled shot at Bill Cosby over the weekend.
Cosby's former costar on "The Cosby Show" has no social media accounts, a rep for Bonet told Gossip Cop, and didn't tweet anything, however enigmatic, referring...

The new animated action-adventure "Big Hero 6" might sound like more of the same Marvel-inspired superhero stuff already saturating movie theaters with its flashy 3-D animation and futuristic nerd kids doing their world saving in bright...

“If I Stay”, a teen love story of sorrow and grief, topped a sluggish box office Friday, leading a late-summer season marked by villains in space, a Ninja Turtles comeback and the inky, graphic-novel violence of a city in sin and a dame in...

“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” ruled the box office for the second week and “Guardians of the Galaxy” was runner-up in its third week, leaving three very different new films — “Let’s Be Cops,” “The Expendables 3” and “The Giver” — fighting for the...

The third time doesn't look to hold much charm for "The Expendables 3." The geezer action sequel pulled in an estimated $5.9 million in the U.S. and Canada through Friday, down 44% from the 2012 opening of "The Expendables 2" and...

The R-rated comedy "Let's Be Cops" had a solid start at the box office, grossing $5.2 million in its Wednesday release.
The 20th Century Fox buddy cop film, which began its early showings at 10 p.m., follows two friends Ryan (Jake Johnson)...

Movie critics are reading "Let's Be Cops" the riot act. Although the comedy starring Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. as a pair of buddy cops who aren't really cops has a solid premise, reviews say, the dreary script is unfit for duty.
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There's an appealing hint of misadventure in a title like "Let's Be Cops," as well as in the first few scenes in which down-on-their-luck roommates Ryan (Jake Johnson), a failed football player, and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.), a video game...

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At a struggling Los Angeles TV station, a children's show actress leads her female colleagues as new management arrives from New York on a cost-cutting mission. With Tanna Frederick, Michael Imperioli and Gregory Harrison. Written...

The Dwyane Wade baby situation had gotten a little more starry, with Damon Wayans Jr. revealed as the father of the other two children of Wade's new baby mama, Aja Metoyer.
Wade of course got engaged to his longtime girlfriend, "Bring It On"...

NEW YORK--Move over, “Dancing With the Stars”--there are some new high-flying heroes in town.On Tuesday, ABC entertainment chief Paul Lee announced a fall prime-time schedule that would see the much anticipated Joss Whedon series “Marvel’s Agents...